Music: February Records

Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the
noteworthy.

SYMPHONIC, ETC.

Verdi: Requiem Mass (Soprano Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani,
Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera
Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides;
$10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the
anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro
Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and
trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording
of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus...